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Save Our Date: Wedding Invites

Remember that exciting news I shared a few weeks back? You know, about how the bf and I are were gonna make it legit. Well, no one could ever accuse us of letting the grass grow under our feet. The date is set and Save the Dates have been sent!

Our actual wedding ceremony is going to be small and intimate. We’ve only invited a select few people to join us for the nuptials, but we’ve invited EVERYONE to a great big slammin’ jamboree to celebrate the big day. We’re basically throwing a massive dance party where our friends and family can booze and schmooze. So, when it came time to send out our save the dates, we were a bit stumped. Will people be confused? We settled on a super simple design for the save the date cards and added a small slip of paper to the few that we were also inviting to the ceremony. Done.

Both the bf and I are tatted and we both plan to get something to signify our union. He’s getting a ring tattoo {though also wearing a ring} and I’m getting the wedding date on the side of my ring finger, along with his thumbprint in the shape of a heart over my knuckle. The thumbprint heart is where we came up with the idea to do our save the Dates. Of course, then we Pinterested the idea and found out we weren’t so clever. Oh well, they’re super fun and cute anyway.

We simply designed our card in Word, inked our thumbs with an ink pad and added our thumbprints, printed them out onto heavy cardstock and finished them off with twine. Getting the thumbprints was the hardest part. My bf is a 6’7″ giant, so his thumbs are about six times the size of mine. His thumbprint is using about a quarter of his thumb pad.

DIY {Save Our Date} Invites

Check back regularly for more wedding planning ideas and updates. We’re working on a super tight budget for this one, so we’ll be doing a lot of wedding DIY. Stay tuned…

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